The announcement of the introduction of property taxes and the increase of flat rates for tourist beds last year provoked fierce reactions from private renters, who declared these government moves an attack on family accommodation. There was talk of destroying small renters, stifling tourism, and withdrawing from the business. However, while public declarations of doom were made, the official number of new apartments continued to grow, as did the prices of overnight stays. If this business is indeed so unsustainable – who are all these new people entering the ‘unprofitable’ business every year? How much do these people, whom ‘taxes suffocate’, actually earn? Are their calendars filled as early as May, or is zimmer frei actually less lucrative than it initially seems? Find out in the new feature of the issue.
The pendulum of managing companies of strategic state interest is swinging from the responsible ministries, primarily the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, to the Ministry of Finance. The umbrella institution is becoming the Coordination, which will be located in the Ministry of Finance, emphasizes Miodrag Šajatović, the editor-in-chief of Lider, in this week’s ‘Ekonomalije’.
Direct exports of Croatian goods to the USA are almost symbolic, accounting for one percent of the value of our economy, or about 850 million euros. However, the ‘little problem’ is that our exports to America mainly consist of high value-added products and services, such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, electronic products, and IT services. How Trump’s tariffs have affected Croatian companies, read in this week’s current topic.
